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THE VIENNA PROGRESS, i-i
TEBMS, $1. Per Annum.
Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.”
JNO. JLHOWSIL, l
Lacy a. Morgan, i
XI., NO 41.
Vienna 4 ga ; , Tuesday, may 9, is»3.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ETON GOSSIP.
from Day to I
National Capital
|ppointjnent$ in the Various Depart-
incnts---Othcr Notes of Interest.
about the departments.
r Secretary Carlisle, on Thursday, in
structed the collectors of internal rev-
enue and custom house officials to re-
ifrnin from making the arrests of
Chinese who have' not registered until
1 further orders from the department.
Speaker CrisjJ returned to Washing
ton Thursday. He will remain several
days looking after the interests of hie
constituents. There are several score of
fourth-class postmasters to be ap
pointed in his district. Several presi-
itiSPhostoffices must also be tilled,
f’ r * ’^*(^.his constituents want
er ofiicWr^
ly means of raising small cer-
ed checks to large amounts, a
er forger Thursday swindled three
iks of Kansas City, Mo., out of
fiOO. The victims are the Metro-
llitan National bank the Citizens Na T
jitlal bank and the Midland National
■ik. The forger gave his name as
Forge B. Norton, but his identity is
It known and no more trace of him
is been discovered.
I THE health officer at Astoria, Ore.,
■ednesday telegraphed the depart-
■<nt that the steamer, Danube, had
■ rived at that point from Hong Kong
■ith GOO Chinese on board. These
f iiinese were destined for Portland,
Pre. In the course of his medical ex-
^■niiination he also examined their pa-
and ho expressed the opinion that
^Hncnrly all of the GOO Chinese have bo-
^Hgus certificates.
Secretary Gresham reaffirmed Tlrars-
■ day his statement of Wednesday that
ho had sent two telegrams to the gov-
V ernors of the western states asking
m them to take precaution against vio-
™ lenee to Chinese. He did not care to
state how many and wliat governors
had been asked to take action, but
said that the text of the dispatch over
“I'^Si&Wgrmtule given out for publication
Uy Governor Pennoyer, of Oregon,
was correct. The secretary declined
t'o comment on the answer sent him by
Governor Pennoyer.
The following Georgia postmasters
were appointed Wednesday: Braswell,
, Paulding county, J. B. Harris; Cole
City, Dade county, J. A. Bennett;
. Ellijay, Gilmer county, A. T. Logan;
I Experiment, Spalding county, R. E.
: Hardee; Horns Cross Roads, Miller
county, Hardy Strickland; Oakley
j Mill, Cobb county, C. E. Johnson.
These postmasters were commissioned
for Georgia Wednesday: William J.
r Parffioui, Landrum; Peter T. Shore,
Alto ; John E. Mansfield, Bluffton;
William S. King, Bonair; Annie G.
West, Cusseta; Sarnna Turkman, Ellis.
( t Ex-Secretary Rusk and family left
for the west on the Penusvlvania road
i Tuesday afternoon. A large number
• of the officers and employes of the de-
— partment of agriculture went to the
station to bid their former chief good
i bye. Perhaps no other cabinet officer
j has endeared himself to the employes
^^dhi^U^inent in .a greater degree
Jerry.!'' A box of
IHti'rs was presented to Mrs. Rusk by
officials connected with the depnrt-
Hnnent. General Rusk nnd family will
stay in Chicago a few days before pro
ceeding to their Wisconsin home.
Secretary Gresham on Thursday, re
ceived a letter from the United States
consul general at Havana, dated April
29th, forwarding a copy of the procla
mation issued April 28th by the gov
ernor general of Cuba, already pub
lished, declaring the province of San
lingo do Culm in a state of seige. The
rcas ongiven for the measure is thnt
somo bands of men have risen in arms
against the government in the ham
lets of Velasco -and Puerto, near the
northern coast of that province, for
tho immediate suppression of which
active military measures are now boint
taken by the government.
The president appointed postmas
ters Thursday as follows: Margaret
G. Davis at Biloxi, . Miss., reappoint
ed ; Thomas W. James at McComb,
Miss., vice S. W. Collins, office became
presidential; Walter N. Hurt at Wi
nona, Miss., vice Mary C. Mathews,
removed; Albert L. Howe at Natches,
Miss., viee H. C. Griffin, removed;
Thomas B. Crews, at Laurens, S. C.,
vice J. M. Robertson, removed; Wil
liam Y. O. Haimum, at - Maryville,
Tenn., vice J. P. Edmonson, removed;
John W. Clark at Ripley, Tenn., of-
ficelf'.-'nme presidential; Robert A.
Ponh Cleburne, Tenn., vice W. H.
Den! resigned.
Work for Bissrll.
^ Washington special of Wednesday
When Postmaster General Bis-
while the number of appointments
made on account Of resignations and
death was 1,077 more than four years
ago.
Cleveland*?* Return from Chicago.
Promptly at 5:55 o’clock Tuesday
afternoon on schedule time the presi
dential train steamed into the Pennsyl
vania station bringing Mr. Cleveland
and those of his cabinet who returned
with him from Chicago. Mr. Cleveland
was the first to step from the cor and
was followed by Secretaries Carlisle,
Gresham, Smith, Herbert and Morton,
Secretary Lament, Postmaster General
Bissell and Attorney General Olney
not being with the party. The only
ladies accompanying the party were
Mrs. Carlisle and Miss Herbert.
Carriages were in waiting and
the travelers were at once
driven to their respective homes.
When asked for an expression of opin
ion regarding Lis visit President Cleve
land, through Private Secretary Thur-
her, said : 1 ‘We received a very cor
dial welcome and everything that could
be done for our comfort and pleasure.
It was an occasion which I shall al
ways remember with a sense of genu
ine pleasue. I was much gratified at
the enterprise, skill and taste display
ed in the arrangement and appearance
of the buildings and the results thus
far attained bespeak to my mind a
great success for the world’s fair.
ur Spur.fall Treaty 3fny be Abandoned.
A Washington afternoon paper pub-
lishes the following: Abundant reas
ons for the abandonment of the policy
of reciprocity under the McKinley bill
exists in the complaints received by
the state department regarding the eva
sion of the treaty by Spanish officials in
Cuba. The Spanish government was
forced into the treaty by the diploma
cy of Mr. Blaine, because of the fear
that if the Cuban sugar growers were
deprived of their market in the Uni
ted States through reciprocity arrange
ments with other sugar growing coun
tries, they would rise in revolt against
Spain. The Government apparently
intends to make thetreaty so unpopular
that it will fall to the ground of its own
weight, nnd has imposed an excise tax
nearly equal to the duties remitted by
the McKinley bill. The Spanish min
ister gave the assurance when the ne
gotiations were in progress that no ex
port or port duty, national or provin
cial, should be imposed on exports
which the United States admitted free
of duty, but the new excise, although
levied on sugar for domestic consump
tion, practically accomplishes the pur
pose of an export duty. Our govern
ment will either protest strongly
against this tax or wipe out the whole
treaty and leave the Cuban growers to
face a possible import duty under new
tariff.
TELEGEAPHIC GLEANINGS.
The Ms ol the World Conflenssil ]
Pithy and Pointed Paragraphs.
Interesting and Instructive to All
Classes of Readers.
BUSINESS REVIEW.
president on the subject of the ap
pointment of presidential postmasters,
tho latter will realize that during his
absence from Washington the official
of the department who have charge of
this branch of the work have not been
idle, for Mr. Bissell will place befor
him for approval about one hundred
appointments. It is not- likely that
the full hundred will be considered at
one sitting, but it is probable that the
next list of appointments will be unu
sually long. The total number of
fourth-class postmasters appointed
M ednesday was 141, of which 135 were
to fill vacancies caused by resignations
nnd dentil.
A Comparative -Statement.
A statement prepared from the rec
ords of the postoffice department
shows that during the first two months
of the present administration, the to
tal number of fourth-class postmasters
appointed was 3,894 as against 6,104
made during the first two months of
Mr. Harrisons’s administration. The
number of appointments made during
the last two months to fill
vacancies caused by resignations
and deaths was 2,685 as
against 1,608 made during the .corre
sponding period of last administra
tion. The number of removals made
during the last two months is shown
to be ouiv 1,209, while the number of
removals made during the first two
months of Mr. Eurrisou’s administra
tion reached 3,496. The excess of ap
pointments four years ago, therefore,
J,2i0 ftad the excess of removals 2,887,
Report of Trade for the Past Week by
l)nn & Co.
Messrs. R. G. Dun & Co.’s review of
trade for the past week says: Presi
dent Cleveland’s decision about the
redemption of legal tenders all admit
has arrested what threatened to be
come a serious disturbance. Reports
from all pnrts of the country indicate
that the trade has been much retarded
by bad weather and unsettled money
markets, and complaints of poor col
lections are general. Chicago reports
a decreased wholesale trade and collec
tions behind band, retail trade and
construction work being retarded by
the weather and building materials
below last fall’s prices. The demand
for money is heavy and banks are con
servative. At Sioux City no panic re
sulted from heavy bank failures, and
at Omaha trade is very active, but re
tarded at St. Joseph by bad weather.
Business is fair at Kansas City, with
cattle stronger, but trade is quiet
at Denver. At St. Louis, jobbing
Lade is good; collections free. South
ern orders are small, but cotton seed is
in demand for replanting. At points
in Tennessee trade is generally slug
gish and collections small. At Mont
gomery and Atlanta some improvement
is seen, but at Charleston trade is dull.
New Orleans reports a fair trade with
especial aetivy in real estate and build
ing materials, but there, and at most
other southern points, collections are
slow. Tho failure of the Pennsylvania
Steel Company eauses much depres
sion, and makes it harder for other
concerns to obtain accommodations.
Cotton is an eighth lower on sales of
8l 0,000 bales in spite of reported inju
ries, the pressure * of heavy stocks be
ing felt as money lightens. Corn has
risen a cent and pork SI per barrel and
the speculations at Chicago seemed to
have revived with the bad weather,
which delays farming operations.
Even' wheat is a quarter of a cent
higher than a week ago, with sales of
500,000,000 bushels, though receipts
at the west- are still heavy and ship
ments by lake enormous. Enormous
produce exports have improved a little
but for the month all exports from
New York are still much behind last
year’s, while imports here show an in
crease of §9,000,000. This state of
foreign trade is still the cause of dan
ger of the money market which no j
election of the administration, however
wise, con entirely remove. • *
The business failures oecuring
throughout the country during the
last seven days number 238 as compar
ed with totals of 208 last week. For
the corresponding week of last year
the figures were 211.
NATIONAL DEBT STATEMENT
Showing the Operation of the Treasury
Department During April.
The operation of the treasury depart
ment during the last month, as indi
cated by the debt statement issued
Monday, shows a net increase in the
public debt of §3,726,819.40. The
bonded debt increased $421,000, and
the cash in the treasury decreased
$4,147,824.40, the net result being
increase. of the ’debt. The in
terest bearing debt increased $500.
Debt on which interest has ceased
since maturity decreased $73,100
and debt bearing no interest $347,850.
The aggregate interest and non-inter
est bearing debt, April 30, was $962,-
407.764.13. March 3d it was $962,-
828.219.13. The coin certificates and
treasury notes offset an equal amount
of cash in the treasury outstanding at
the end of the month was $596,016,-
621, a decrease of $1,411,470. The
total cash in the treasury $756,544,116
against which liabilities were outstand
ing, including $97,011,330,08 gold j
serves,
A Paris Cablegram States that tlie
Behring sea tribunal df arbitration re
sumed session Tuesday and Mr. Carter,
of the council for the United States;
fcontihued his argument:
Eire at Milwaukee, Wis., Sunday
morning, destroyed the dry goods store
and stock of Edward Schuster <fc Co.;
entailing a loss of $100,000. The in
surance is $90,000.
A Boston, Mass., dispatch says: The
Episcopal convention, Thursday; chose
Dean Lawrence, of Boston, the broad
churchmen’s candidate, as bishop of
the diocese of Massachusetts to succeed
the late Phillip Brooks.
The destruction is reported of the
British steamship Khiva off the Ara
bian cost, probably with appalling
loss of life. The Khiva sailed from
Bombay April 12th, carrying a large
number of Mahomedans bound as pil
grims to Mecca.
The home for destitute children
two miles south of Burlington, Yt.,
was burned Monday night. The in
mates, seventy-one children, were all
rescued. The building was a four-
story brick, with additions supposed
to be fireproof. Loss about $50,000.
A Cincinnati dispatch says: Ex-
President Benjamin Harrison was
elected Wednesday by the Ohio com-
mandery of the military order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States as
its commander for the ensuing year.
The other officers were nearly all re
elected.
A New York special of Tuesday says:
Drexel, Morgan & Co. state that more
than a majority of both classes of bonds
and stocks of the Richmond Terminal
have been deposited with them. It is
thought that the details will be com
pleted during the week and the plan
given out to holders of securities.
A New York special says: The con
dition of Edwin Booth was reported
late Monday night to be very encour
aging. His physician states that he is
better and brighter than he has been
since his illness, and confidently ex
pects him to recover, all alarming ru
mors to the contrary notwithstanding.
Sixty-five Africans, who are to show
the “dark phases” of African life at
the world’s fair, were steerage pas
sengers on the steamship La Bretagne
which arrived at New York Sunday.
There were twenty women and four
children in the party. Most of tho
human exhibition comes from Da
homey.
General Schoffield, at Washington,
received a telegram from General
Cook, commanding the department of
Arizona, Monday night, stating that
he thought the report regarding tjje
Navajo outbreak was exaggerated. All
necessary steps, he said, had been
taken to protect the people and quiet
the Indians.
Advices of Monday from Melbourne,
Australia, are to the effect that the
general uneasiness caused by tbe many
failures of Australians banks continue
and tbe suspension of the National
Bank of Australia, the last of the finan
cial institutions to go under, has added
greatly to the excitement in banking
and commrrcial circles.
Two men were killed and one seri
ously wounded Thursday morning by
the explosion of a piston head in the
shops of the Cincinnati Southern rail
way at Chattanooga, Tenn. The dead
are John Quigley, white, and Will
Peak, colored. Jesse Biles, white, will
probably lose his eyesight. The cause
of the explosion is unknown.
Herbert A. Preston, one of the oldest
Washington correspondents, died at
his residence in that city Tuesday
morning of a complication of diseases.
Mr. Preston had charge of the New
York Herald bureau at the capital for
many years, but lately he has been en
gaged in miscellaneous newspaper
work. He was about fifty-seven years
of age.
United States Senator Standford
states that ex-President Harrison will
deliver his course of ten or more lect
ures before the Leland Standford, Jr.,
university at Palo Alto, Cal., in the
early part of the next college term.
The last lecture will be an expression
of Mr. Harrison’s views as to tho best
plan of compiling an international
code of law to govern all prominent
nations of the world.
Monday fifty skilled workmen in the
33-inch beam mill of the Carnegie
Steel Works at Homestead threw aside
their tools and quit work on account
of a reduction from 37 to 26 cents per
ton. The whole town is excited. The
former union men look upon the trou
ble as a victory for them. It is said
they intend returning to work to get
even .with the present strikers who ac
cepted their positions last summer.
A.London cable of Monday says:
News comes from Zanzibar of the
drowning of 125 slaves by the capsizing
of an Arab dhow in which the captives
were being conveyed south of Mada
gascar. It is complained that since
the recognition by Great Britain of
the French protectorate over Mada
gascar, the British cruisers have ceased
to patrol Malagassy waters, and that
the French authorities in that vicinity
wink at the slave trade.
A dispatch of Thursday from Cleve
land, O., says: Coal has been scarce
at Ohio ports for several days and
boats have lost much time in getting
full loads. But matters will be even
worse for the next week or ten days.
Ail the Ohio miners quit work Monday,
and while it is not expected that the
strike will be of long duration, it will
take at least a week to settle it and in
the meantime vessels will have to lie
still at present.
Advices from Havana are to the ef
fect that the insurgents in eastern Cuba
number 300. The government will ask
for funds for a campaign against them,
but not for reinforcements. At a
meeting in Madrid Sunday evening the
cabinet approved the resolution au
thorizing the governor of Cuba to
draw upon the royal treasury for any
amount required for military supplies,
Warships and troops are held in readi
ness to be sent to Cuba at a moment’s
notice:
The duke of Yeragna, through the
long-distance telephone from Chicago,
opened the Press Club fair at the
Grand palace in New York city Mon
day evening. The duke’s message was
as follows: “From a thousand miles
away, I hereby declare by word of
mouth, the great fair of the New York
Press Club formally opened and wish
it every success: Christopher Colum
bus, dtike de Yetagna.” President
John W. Keller then declated the fait
opeh; There was a large attendaiice
and a big success is predicted.
The Ingham county, Mich., Savings
bank did not opeii its doors Monday
morning; as was expected: Commis
sioner Sherwood took possession of the
bank several days ago; and while he
was satisfied that the securities were
ample to protect commercial deposits,
he required that a bond of $100,000 be
given to him in trust for the savings
depositors: That bond has not yet
been signed, and consequently Mi.
Sherwood would not permit the bank
to commence business again. Efforts
will be made to obtain such a bond
with a view to reopening the bank.
Five men lost their lives in the rag
ing current of the Little Red river near
Searcy, Ark., Tuesday. The river is
very high, as a result of the recent
heavy rains and the current is very
swift. The men drowned were: Al
len Brown, Robinson Caruth, Joe
Scott, Sandy Cooksey and Allen Booth,
All were employed at the government
rock quarry, two miles south of Sear
cy. They got in a small boat and at
tempted to cross the river, when their
craft was thrown violently against a
rock; wrecking it. The men were
thrown into the river and were soon
carried down with the current.
A New York dispatch of Wednesday
says: The consolidation of the princi
pal sole and welt leather manufactur
ers in the country has been accom
plished under the title of the United
States Leather company. The hew
company has been organized in ac
cordance with the laws of the state of
New Jersey. The capital stock of the
new company is to be $120,000;000,
divided into $60; 000; 000 of 8 per cent
cumulative preferred stock, issued for
the actual property; exclusive of goods,
which will be turned over to it, and
$60; 000; 000 of contmon stock. None
of the stock will be offered for sale,
but all will be retained by the vendors
of the various dropeities purchased by
the new company.
GEORGIA AT TEE fitt.
Her Wools and Products Are Well Ref
resented There.
RIVERS ON THE RAMPAGE.
Much Damage Caused by Overflows.
A Disastrous Cloudburst.
Another foot of rise in the river ;
inore flooded villages on the east side;
a collapsed warehouse which resulted
in one death and a prospect for a rep
etition of the scene of a year ago. All
these tell the story of the high water
at St. Louis. The river at 6 o’clock
Monday evening showed a rise of a
fraction of an inch over a foot since
6 o’clock of the night before, with the
water still creeping lip on the gauge.
Many persons who had been living in
the second stories of their homes were
forced to move out altogether Monday,
and several narrow escapes happened,
some barely escaping before their res
idences collapsed or floated away.
THE SITUATION AT ALTON.
At Alton, 111., much damage lias al
ready been done. The Missouri Point
farmers are applying for aid and are
prepared to leave at a minute’s notice.
The greatest calamity lies in the
probability of the Burlington’s em
bankment across the Missouri Point
being washed away. It cost thousands
of dollars to build it and it is now
gradually spreading out and sliding
into the water.
RISING AT CINCINNATI.
At Cincinnati the Ohio river at mid
night was fifty feet above low water and
rising at tbe rate of an inch an hour.
It is five feet above the government
danger line and Eat Row and Sausage
Row are flooded. No damage has been
done and none is apprehended.
At Dayton, O., the Miami river
reached ihe unprecedented height of
15.5 feet.
WATERSPOUT AT TREMONT CITY.
An noon Monday an immense water
spout burst over Tremont City, a vill
age near Springfield, Ohio. At about
the same t me Mad river broke its
banks, and within eighteen minutes
the water had flooded the town, carry
ing away outbuildings and stables and
flooding the first story of residences.
No person is reported killed or drown
ed, but there is a heavy loss of stock.
At midnight one hundred acres in the
northeastern part of the city, contain
ing two hundred houses, were flooded
and the water was rising a foot an
hour.
DAMAGE ALONG THE ARKANSAS.
A special of Monday from Little
Rock, Ark., says: The Arkansas river
is on a boom. It has risen in forty-
eight hours to within a little over three
feet of the highest mark of the great
May flood of 1892. Several houses
have passed down the river, showing
that the flood had been encroaching
upon civilization up the river, while
the current was filled with trees, logs
and brush.
Buying Up Southwestern Stock.
A Savannah special of Friday says:
A large New York banking firm, the
name of which brokers refuse to give,
is buying up Southwestern stock in
large quantities. Besides other Cen
tral securities nearly 3,000 Bhares have
left the city on the order of that one
firm within the past week. Two the
ories are advanced to account for this
movement of the stock—one that Ter
minal people are buying them for the
purpose of an attack on the reorgani
zation, plan and anotherjthat it is spec
ulation based on hope of the success
ful outcome of the reorganization
plan.
The Souvenir Bell.
A Washington special saya: Delay
in collection of materials has caused
postponement of the ceremony of cast
ing the souvenir bell to be made of
historical metal collected by the
Daughters of the American Devolution
for the purpose of commemorating the
opening of the Columbian exposition.
The ceremonies were set for Monday
and Mrs. Cleveland was to have touch
ed a button at the white house con
nected with the automatic arrangement
which would have turned the molten
metal into the mold. It is expected
the delay yill bp for a few day? paly.
The Historic Engine, also Models of
Whitney’s First Cotton Gin and the
First Steamship lhat Crossed the
Ocean, are on Exhibition.
Chicago; May 1 ; —An inspection of
the World’s Fair discloses the fact that
the Sbufh is pretty well represehted
therJ, despite the failure of some of the
legislatures to appropriate money lot
state exhibits: There is no denying
that it would be all the feettet if the
Southern states were more thoroughly
represented, bnt it is gratifying to
find. in a personal inspection that
southern products make up an impor
tant ;patt of this exposition; by fat the
greatest the World has ever seed.
Chicago Was a little disappointed be
cause more people did not coine td
the opening. There were crowds
but only for the day; It is accepted
that the Eastern people will patronize
the Fair very well, and the states as far
as Kansas and Nebraska will certainly
send enormous throngs here. What
of tlie South? is the question on
eVety tongue. Chicagoans want to
know if the Southern people are coming
to the Fair to any extent.
A representative Southerner, who is
here, replied when asked this question
by World’s Fair officers, that the
Southern people would not come here
to be imposed upon. “They are will
ing to pay reasonable rates, but if it is
reported that the charges are extor
tionate, they either will not come at
all of will not remain long. Thous
ands would be deterred from coming
if they feel that the hotels and board
ing bouses are going to ask extrava
gant prices.”
Chicago has the rapacious spirit as
much as any city in the woild, but
the hotels have learned a lesson at the
vety start which they will remember.
Some of the houses did talk about
raising their rates and the impression
went abroad that visitors woriid fee
robbed. This kept thousands and
thousands away and the tush was not
near so great as was expected. Prices
were not increased and the hotels did
not make the money they had looked
for. There is not much danger of ad
vanced prices after this. The tendency
will fee to reduce them.
The hotel and boarding house busi
ness has been overdone; and there ate
more accommodations than there will
be guests unless everybody between
the Atlantic and Pacific cbmeh. A vis
itor can live here as cheaply as any
where; and he can spend as much money
As in any other place—possibly mote
than elsewhere. The best way for a
stranger to Chicago will be to write
to some friend here if yon know any.
State about What .you can afford to
pay, and get the addresses of a number
of hotels and boarding houses.
Then agree on a price by cor
respondence; and on arrival here
you will know just where you ate go-
ihg and where to hate your baggage
Checked. Florida’s building oh the
Exposition grounds is already becom
ing headquarters for Floridians; Geor
gians, South Carolinians and Alabam
ians. Florida’s building is a facsimile
Of old Fort Marion on the San Mateo,
at St. Augustine. The palms and other
tropical foliage, plants and fruits which
are growing around it and within, give
a decided Floridian air.
Georgia has no building here. But
inany things peculiarly Georgian are
to be seen in and About the Fair.
There are minerals in the Mining
Building, cotton, rice and cane in the
Agricultural Hall, fertilizers, sewing
machines and cotton goods in the im
mense Manufactures Building, speci
mens of Georgia wood everywhere and
Georgia plants in the Horticultural
Hall. In mote than half the buildings
there is Georgia pine in the floors.
One of the attractions outside of the
Fair Grounds is a collection of war
relics on the Midway Plaisance. There
is an interesting collection of photo
graphs of battle scenes taken between
Allatoona and Atlanta, along tbe Wes
tern & Atlantic railroad, and Kennesaw
Mountain is faithfully reproduced.
The famous “Lone Grave” by the
side of the State road’s track in Alla-
tooDA pass is photographed, and the
man who tells all about the relics has
a pretty story of the grave being tend
ed by the railroad workmen. He has
another about the “Hold the Fort”
song. He gets flowery sometimes in
his descriptions, but he is impartial
and fair in his picturesque accounts of
the battles. When he comes to the
“Old General” in his lecture, he gets
eloquent, and it is amusing to see
these northern and western people
go up to the locomotive after he has
described the race from Big Shanty up
the line of the State road, and the cap
ture of the spies and their subsequent
fate. He points to the holes made by
the bullets of the pursuers in that thrill
ing race, and his hearers will go up
and examine the holes curiously. The
joke is that the boys aroifnd the West
ern & Atlantic's shops in Atlanta,
knocked the holes in the tendei
and cab with cold chisels to make
the effect more realistic. But, no
doubt, a great many relics which
the world reveres are no more genuine
than these holes, presumed to have
been made by bullets. There is some
thing about this old historic, wood-
burning locomotive which ran np and
down the picturesque mountains of
the State road for years after the war,
which excites more interest than any
relic in the collection. It is still in
good condition, and steamed and puff
ed its way up here from Atlanta,
climbing Cumberland mountain, be
tween Chattanooga and Nashville, and
coming on by Evansville and Terre
Haute, where it attracted more atten
tion than “John Bull,” the first loco
motive, did coming across from Phil
adelphia.
There is a model in machinery hall of
Eli Whitney’s first cotton gin, the one
he invented and set np on the planta
tion above Savannah. In Transporta
tion hall is a model of the first steamship
which crossed the Atlantic. This was
the Savannah which sailed from the
port for which it was named seventy-
five years ago. The original was sunk
many years later on the Atlantic coast
bnt the original eggine had been taken
put and hag been preserved.
THE GROWING CROPS.
Report of Ifeaffier Bureau for Past
Week.
The weather and crop conditions of
the varions sections of the state as
giveit by the weather bnrean for the
past week is as follows:
Cold and windy weather in the north
west of the state has returned all Vege
table growth of the past week. Corn
has suffered for want of heat and rav
ages of cut-worms, so that its condition
is not as good as last week. The more
advanced was slightly damaged by
frost during the latter half of the week.
Corn planting is nearly finished, bnt
some replanting will have to be done.
With normal rainfall, wheat, oats and
grass are doing finely. The larger part
of the cotton crop is not yet np. No
serious harm has been done to fruit ex
cept where the high wind has in some
eases broken the trees.
The weather in the north section has
been very unfavorable for all growing
crops, on account of the cold. High
winds have baked the lands and greatly
retarded the growth of cotton and
corn. Damage has been done to cot
ton by the frequent light frosts, which
also injured fruit and gardens. Stands
of corn are good. Cotton planting is
well under way but not yet finished.
Little of the crop is np yet on account
of the low temperature, Potatoes and
beans have been killed by frost at
many points. Grain and grass are
proifiising,
Although the abnormally cold
weather and frosts of tho past week
havo probably slightly injufed some
crops and retarded the growth of till,
the rain, which has fallen at intervals,
has doubtless acted as an offset, and
crops in the northeastern counties are
in fair condition. Cotton is coming
up slowly and planting is not com
pleted. In some localities farmers are
replanting cotton which was injured
by frost. Corn is planted and above
grottnd. Working over is in progress
and an excellent crop is probable.
Some complaints are made of slight
injury by cut worms, this, however is
not general. The fruit crop is in fair
condition but rather backward in
growth and a slight shortage in yield
is indicated.
In the west section the growth of all
crops has been checked by cool weath
er during the past week. High winds
hate caused the soil to bake some, and
an additional light rain would be bene
ficial, Cotton has been slightly dam
aged by frost and its growth greatly
retarded, while the condition is far
below the average. In some localities
it is dying on account of the cold, un
favorable weather. Oats and ‘ wheat
are heading out slightly and are in ex
cellent condition, but some corres
pondents report slight injury by bud-
worms. Fruit has uot been very ma
terially injured by frost and cold
weather and the prospects are still fa
vorable for an excellent crop.
A fine rain in central Georgia dur
ing tbe early part of last week has been
of untold benefit to crops in general in
this part of the state. About two-
tfeifds of the cotton crop is up. Little
cropping is reported as yet. Plowing
of corn is in progress and the crop looks
well though some damage from bud-
wotms is reported. Wheat and oats
are coming along finely. Melons are
not extra; have been troubled by
worms somewhat. Gardens are fair.
The prospects for a large fruit crop
continue good, though high winds
have blown the peaches off consider-
ablv.
The weather has been excellent in
the eastern counties with the excep
tion of high winds and want of heat.
There has been abundant rainfall with
out its being excessive. Cotton has
been rapidly planted since the rain and
tlie most of the crop is now in. The
chief complaint made is of injury by
cnt-worins which have attacked corn,
cotton and gardens. Notwithstanding,
the crops are in fine condition in this
part of the state. Corn has been
worked out and cotton is being work
ed. Oats have improved since the rain.
The reports of fruit are very encoura
ging. Irish potatoes look well. Cane
is growing Well but the acreage is
rather small.
Farms at many places in the south
west section were badly washed by ex
cessive rains, which slighly injured the
young and tender crops. The cold
weather was somewhat injurious to
cotton, corn, oats aud the setting of
peaches and pears. Cotton and corn
are reported to be dying out at some
places.
In most of the south section the week
has been favorable. Abundant rains
on the 19th and 20th relieved the dan
ger of drought and have brought up
the cotton to good stands. Iu Brooks,
Lowndes and Clinch counties, howev
er, the storm was very violent, and the
rainfall excessive amounting to over
five inches. The downpour in so'
places washed away crops and soil, 4
ing great damage. Oats have benefitt
by the rain and the crop is in excep
tionally good condition. The general
appearance of orchards is promis
ing. Truck farms are in a good shape,
as a rule, although worms are doing
some damage, as they are also to corn
and cotton.
Reports from the counties in the
southeastern portions of the state
make the fact clear that the weather
of the past week has been excellent for
all crops in that section. Good wet
ting rains prevented the threatened
damage from drought, and the weath
er in every way has been suitable for
all vegetable growth, except that it has
been a little cool. Work is going right
ahead. Cotton is about all up, not
very good stands yet. Corn plowing
is the “order of the day.” Corn,
though troubled some by bud-worms,
is generally in good condition. Wheat
and oats look well. Beans are bloom
ing. Fruit trees are in good condi
tion, and special mention is made of
the promising outlook for a good yield
of Le Conte and Keiffer pears.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
PRACTICAL HINTS.
China may be mended as firmly as a
rock by the following recipe: Two
persona will be needed for the work,
however, for tbe manipulation must be
rapid. The necessary materials are a
little unslacked lime, pulverized; the
slightly beaten white of egg, and a small
hair brush such as is used for mucilage
Put the white of egg on the broken
edges of both pieces to be joined, and
immediately dust one edge with the
powdered lime; put the two edge3 accu
rately and firmly together, hold in place
for a minute or two and then lay aside
to dry.
To keep your silver bright without
constant cleaning, which is injurious to
the plated articles, dissolve a small
handful of borax in a dishpan of hot
water with a little soap, put the silver
in and let it stand all the morning (or
afternoon, as the case may be), then pou
off the suds, rinse with clear, cold water
and wipe with a soft cloth.
Use flannel to wash tee children with
in winter and they will be good-natured
while bathing.
Put a sound, ripe apple in the tin box
with your fruit cake, and the latter will
keep without becoming crumbly or dry,
—New York Recorder.
to if Ann Hosts mads uavdtw. -
Butter Scotoh—Boil a capful o; sugar,
a cupful of molasses, half a cup of
batter, a tablespoonful of soda. Stir
frequently, and as soon a3 the syrup will
•nap between the teeth after being
dipped in cold water, remove from the
fire and flavor to taste. Pour upon a
buttered tin one-fourth of an inch thick,
and When nearly cold mark off in strips
or squares and wrap in paraffin paper.
This is excellent.
Lemon Drops—Boil one pound of
sugar, a cupful of water and one-half
teaspoonful of cream of tartar until a
little dipped into cold water will snap
between the teeth without a suspicion of
stickiness. Remove from the fire and
»dd tartaric acid to the taste, aud flavor
highly with oil or essence of lemon; oil
is preferable if obtainable. Drop the
candy from a spoon upon buttered tins
to form drops, or pour into an oiled pan
and mark off in squares.
Peanut Candy—Almond or peanut
candy may be made by employing the
same materials above, without th(
flavoring, by just before taking off.
pouring in a goodly supply of nuts anc
Jetting the whole boil up once. Do no!
stir the syrup in any way, or it will
grain, but when brittle ponr on slab or
pan and mark off in strips.
Oid-fashioned Molasses Candy—Pom
Into a large kettle a quart of mo'.asses,
boil for one-half hour over slow fire,
3tirring to prevent it from boiling over.
When a little dropped in water become!
brittle, add one-half teaspoonful soda,
stir quickly and pour out to cool; turn
in the edges as they cool, and when cool
enough to handle pull until it becomes
• golden color.
These last three recipes make candies
that grow very sticky if exposed to the
air after the syrup is cold, but which
will keep indefinitely if put in glass jars
or tin boxes with top3 securely fastened
to exclude the air.
An oiled cloth wiped around the edge
of a kettle in which syrup is boiling,
making an oily streak just below the
rim, will prevent its boiling over, and
must be looked to in candies which can
not be stirred.—Good Housekeeping.
An Editor Denounced.
A mass meeting of the citizens of
Denmark, S. C., was held Saturday af
ternoon. Abont five hundred were
present. Captain J. E. Steadman was
called to the chair and J. D. Millhouse
acted as secretary. Colonel D. Paul
Sojourner explained that the meeting
was called to denounce the course of
certain newspapers in regard to the
lynching of the negro Peterson, and
the course of Editor Goiizales, gf the
State, is particular.
PALATABLE POTATOES.
Fried potatoes are a staple of family
tables, but how many housekeepers
•erve them nicely? American fried po
tatoes are boiled first and sliced cold to
fry. They need a large frying pan, or
are best cooked on a griddle which has
surface enough to let each piece lie next
to the fire. The careless cook throws
in potatoes enough to (ill the pan, let
ting some scorch and others get sodden.
Slice them a quarter of an inch thick, so
as noe to break in turning. Salt and
pepper, and when the large spoonful of
fat is turning brown in the hot pan lay
them in, brown quickly and turn with a
broad griddle caae turner. Potatoes of
•econdary quality are best pared and
•liced raw and fried. The heat of boil
ing fat, which i3 stronger than that of
boiling water, drives the water out ol
them. Small, deep kettles are sold for
frying, and the lard is kept in them and
used many times over.
The Secret of “Chips”—The secret of
frying Saratoga potatoes or “cuips,” as
they are called, i3 to have them cold,
crisp and dry before putting them iu the
boiling fat. They are sliced a3 chin as
possible, soaked in ice water an hour or
more, and each slice dried on a towel,
fried in very hot fat and drained on a
sieve a moment in a very Lot oven or
over the stove, then cooled in a draft
quickly. They are hardly worth the
trouble.
Tue Virginia Way—They taste bettei
to be sliced thicker, soaked in cold
water, drained and fried in a covered
pan with two or three spoonfuls of suet,
turning brown before they are put in,
salt and pepper thickly while cooking at
leisure. This is a Virginia fashion of
cooking potatoes.
Hoosier Potatoes—For dinner they are
pared and boiled till nearly done, then
put in the kettle with nice boiling white
turnips to finish. As much turnip as
potato is the rule, and the turnips must
be put to cook half an hour earlier to be
done at the same time. When done,
drain; let the kettle stand uncovered
over the fire a moment to drive out the
steam from the vegetables, and mash
them together, mixing well with two
spoonfuls of butter, salt to taste and
serve in a well smoothed mound in a hot
dRh with pepper on the top. Tuis is •
nice way of serving turnips, without the
strong flavor mo3t persons dislike, and
potatoes of ordinary quality are better
used in this fashion.
Kentucky Potatoes—Slice the pota
toes as for frying, and soak in cold
water for half an hour. Parboil in a
frying pan, pour the water off, and let
them stand on the lire uncovered till the
steam is driven off; brown a spoonful of
butter or fat and pour over them a min
ute after, then cover the potatoes with
milk, in which they should boil till
done. Salt and pepper while cooking,
and watch lest they burn. There should
be just milk enough when done for a
creamy gravy, thickened by the starch
of the potatoes.—St. Louis Republic.
A stranger on the cars near Los
Angeles, Cal., ordered cigars for his fel-
low’-passengers and, just as the weed*
k»4 been lighted, blew out bi» brain*.
MY BABY.
I awaited my baby this morning',
As 1 wait for him every day.
To come from his early breakfast;
So loving and blithe and gay.
With his books slung over his shoulder,
And his little cap in his hand,
To take sweet leave of his mother.
To look in her eyes, and stand c
A moment beside her, smile.
As he goes through the pretty rule
Of kissing her twice, “Good-by! Good-byP
Ere he trudges awav to school.
I waited in vain for my darling:
I could not believe my eyes
When I saw him bound over the threshold
Out under the bright spring skies,
So eager to join his comrades
A moment he could not miss,
He had gone away and forgotten—
Forgotten my good-by kissl
It seemed as some cruel monster
Had snatched him awav from my arms!
My child! Had his mother’s petting
No longer its soothing charms?
Alas! ’tis the old, old story
The mother must take her place
In his heart, in a far-off corner.
With her dear old yearning face
Shrined dimly within his mem’ry,
While newer, more thrilling ties
Wind in and out 'mong his heartstrings
And cling to his lips and eyes.
Comrades, aud sport?, and sweetheart,
Now one thing, now another.
Alas for my boy, he’s my “baby" no more—
He's forgotten to kiss his mother!
—Belle Hunt, in New York World.
1IUM0E OF THE DAY.
cash-
Dissolved in tears—Salt.
“Lights out”—The absconding
ier.
‘I’ll just make a night of it,” said
the sun as he went down.
The largest part of most people is tho
wish bone.—Atchison Globe.
Can a newspaper war properly bo
termed a scrap of paper?—Texas Sift
ings.
If a great lawyer is a legal light, is a
great electrician an electric light?—
Life.
He—“If I should—er—ask you to
marry me She—“You’d make
the thirteenth.”—Life.
He—“What can I do to prove my
love for you?” She—“Don’t speak
about it any more.”—Siftings.
Women are not cruel to dumb ani
mals. No woman will willfully step on
a mouse.—Richmond Recorder.
A despatch from. Montana says tho
Crow Indians show fight. No doubt
they have caw3.—Lowell Courier.
It is odd that there is one thing a
self-made man was never known to do;
and that is to “finish” himself.—Puck.
“My wife,” said Squills proudly, “is
queen of tho tea table, and she never
reigns but she pours.”—Drake's Maga
zine.
“That’s ‘a new way to pay old
debt3,’” remarked the tailor, when
Chappy came in and paid him in full.—
Truth.
A Germantown baker sent fifty big
gingercakes to the local almshouse last
week. A very nice dough-nation,—
Philadelphia Record.
She—“How did the amateurs do tho
trial scene last night!” He—“Immense
ly. It was the greatest trial I ever lived
through.”—Statesman.
He—“What a beautiful picture Miss
Blanche Rouge makes besides the por
tiere.” She—“Yes, she is exquisitely
painted.”—Texas Sittings.
George—“1 thought you were study
ing oil wells in the West.” Fred—“Ob,
I gave it up; it was such a bore, you
know.”—New York Mercury.
“It seems to me,” groaned old Atlas,
under the heavy burden of the earth,
“that I’ve got a mighty poor geographi
cal situation.”—Chicago Tribune.
“How do you like your alarm clock?”
asked the jeweler. “First rate.” “You
didn’t seem pleased with it at first.’ 1
“No. But it's broken now.”—Wash
ington Star.
“I don’t see why you think the cook
thinks of leaving; she is well paid.”
•Wife “Ye3; but she hasn’t brought
one of Bertha Clay’s novels with her.”—
Inter-Ocean.
Jackson—“I met a man on the street
yesterday who reminded me of you. 1,
Jenkins—“Is that so. How?” “He,
too, has owed me ten dollars for more
than a month.”
Clara—“I saw Ella on tho street to
day. She was trying to travel incognito.”
Mamie—“You don’t say so. What had
she done to disguise herself?” Clara—
“She didn’t paint.”—Grip.
“Will I find your husband at tho
club this evening?” “I'm sure you will,
for he kissed me good-by and said his
work would keep him at the office until
late.”—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
She—“You are always sneering at
women who talk too much. Are you
hitting at me?” He—“Not at all.
There are lots of women beside you who
talk too much.’ —Texas Siftings.
Hunting tile AUijaior in Florida.
L. J. Hill give3 some lively experisuco
of hunts after alligators in Florida. Ho
says the hunting is done at night in a
small boat. One man stands m the bow
of the boat with a bullseye lantern; an
other uses the oars; while a third is
ready with a rifie to do the shooting.
The lantern shines the eyes of tho
alliga#ir. On the dark and placid bosom
of the lake the ’gator’3 eyes shine like
two balls of fire. Noiselessly the boat
moved to where the balls of firo
glisten. When within a few feet of tho
alligator the rifleman sends a ball crush-
into his head between the eye3. If
the shot is a good one, the ’gator turns
over on his back and i3 hauled into the
boat. Sometimes when only badly
wounded the alligator give3 muc i trouble
ind is likely to prove dangerous.—At
lanta Journal.
' Oregon Has a Rabbit Pest.
A Westerner, speaking of the numbet
of rabbits in Oregoo, used a somewhat
startling phrase to emphasize the facl
that the State is overrun with the pests.
He said in the most serious way possi
ble: “There are enough rabbit tails in
an Oregon wheat field to patch Texas a
mile in its raggeiest place.” This is
supposed to be the language of the soil,
the decadence of which causes the high
literary critic to mourn. The quotation
is literffi with the exception of ona
word. ’He didn’t say Texas. —Neff
Y'-k Tribune.